It has been suggested that, during evolution, specific mechanisms developed in order to
optimize the detection of threats and opportunities even in perceptually degraded …

Visual processing of natural scenes is carried out in a hierarchical sequence of stages that
involve the analysis of progressively more complex features of the visual input. Recent …

Valence and arousal are primary dimensions of affective stimuli. An interaction of these two
factors on affective processing is largely unknown. In this study, the processing of affective …

Facial expressions can display personal emotions and indicate an individual's intentions
within a social situation. They are extremely important to the social interaction of individuals …

The interference produced by the viewing of emotional distractors has been interpreted as
evidence that emotional cues are processed in a fairly mandatory fashion, and that they …

Previous studies have consistently shown that repeated exposure to emotional stimuli leads
to a reduction in cortical and autonomic responses (affective habituation). These findings …

The investigation of visual categorization has recently been aided by the introduction of
deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs), which achieve unprecedented accuracy in …

Is color a critical feature in emotional content extraction and involuntary attentional orienting
toward affective stimuli? Here we used briefly presented emotional distractors to investigate …

Smokers with stronger neuroaffective responses to drug-related cues compared to nondrug-
related pleasant images (C> P) are more vulnerable to compulsive smoking than individuals …

A set of studies are reviewed that investigate the effects of repetition during scene
perception on event-related potentials, elucidating perceptual, memory and emotional …